Welcome to Battles of
Faith, I'm Atonte Myers
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And I'm Ivor Myers
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On today's program we are
going to be talking about the
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martial arts, and I'm
very excited about this program
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Because if you have been
watching this hole entire series
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you will know, that we
have been talking about
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the entertainment industry
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and we can pair
it to a black hole
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and if you feel very
trapped by that black hole
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like you can't escape
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this program is going to be
specially encouraging to you
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because by the
end of the program
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you will know how to escape
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that black hole
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you will be able to
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spiritually fight the war
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more effectively
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Amen. You know Atonte
this is a very special program
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because we felt that
we needed to do something
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on this, when you look
at the martial arts industry
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it is definitely an industry
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that is growing
by leaps and bounds
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you look at video games
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you look at movies
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such movies like
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Enter the Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
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these movies that
maybe some of our listeners,
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our viewers are familiar with
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or your children
maybe familiar with them
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the martial arts
it's making it's way into
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a lot of these media
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venues, and
it's becoming popular
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among young people, I remember
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one movie came out
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maybe ten years ago
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The Karate Kid
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and after that movie came out
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every young
person was going to learn
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this martial art
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and so we felt it definitely.
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I have a
background in the martial arts
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My brother
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younger brother was born in 1973
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my mother was at a
drive in movie theater
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watching the opening night
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it was the opening night of
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Enter the Dragon
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so my younger brother came
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was delivered
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She had to leave
that movie theater
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go deliver him, she
came back the next night
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to finish seeing the movie.
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My brother, from
his birth has been
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was, I should say
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addicted to the
martial arts, as was I
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and so we have a background
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in the martial arts, my uncle,
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my fathers brother actually
thought us the martial arts
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>From age of 10 we
learned the art of Wing Chun
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He was a student of a
classmate of Bruce Lee.
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My uncle that is
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He began to teach us this
art and we were just all into
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the movies, and everything
dealing with the martial arts
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and we watched as this phenomena
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actually just grew
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and now be believe it is an
issue that we need to deal with
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when we're talking about
the entertainment industry
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yes, well people like
myself who are not as familiar
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with the martial arts because
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growing up, it
didn't really interest me
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but, I know
that its a huge thing
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the movies are taking it on
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and they are
making movies about it
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and they are very popular
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and the video games
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as I am passing young people
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with these little game
boys or what ever you call them
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and passing the TV
screen I see all this Kickboxing
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and all this
type of martial arts
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I know it's very
huge with the young people
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Yes, and it's appealing Atonte
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because as you
look at these movies
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or watch these video games
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You've got one person, one guy
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beating up fifteen, twenty,
thirty people at one time
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and you've got this
supernatural feats going on
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witch we are going to talk
about in a little wile as well
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as we have seen,
the enemy of souls
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is behind a lot more
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then we imagine
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and we're going to see it front
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this is one of those feels
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where we are going
to have our eyes open
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to see what the
enemies plans are
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and how he is succeeding
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to further his plan to
deceive and to destroy souls
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as Christians
there is a war going on
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and God does want us to fight
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but it's a spiritual fight
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and He wants us
to train spiritually
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That's right. A lot of
people don't realize this but
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the martial arts, if you would
go to your internet and type in
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new age or
spiritualism and martial arts
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you would find that there is
a very strong connection there
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infect, we are going
to look at our first slide
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and we are going to
nodes something that is in
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the Encyclopedia
of New Age Believes
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and the Encyclopedia of New
Age Beliefs, basically states
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that martial arts represents
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forms of spiritual education
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that function as means
towards self-realization or
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self-enlightenment.
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So the power is within yourself
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within yourself, right
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you advance stage by
stage until you reach
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a final level as it
were of self realization
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and it's amazing Atonte
that people don't realize that
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when you look
into a book like this
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the Encyclopedia of New Age
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people would say, what
is the martial arts doing
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in a book like this
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why would they
even talk about that
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well the fact is as
we're going to learn
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there is a lot of spiritualism
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that is tied
into the martial arts
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So, they don't
give the glory to God
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for their training
as they go to each level
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higher and higher
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the power is within themselves
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There are a lot
of superhuman feet
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that are performed
in the martial arts
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there is
something called Dim Mac
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the Death Touch, where
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a martial artist
is supposed to be able
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to hit a person that person
will not really feel the blow
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but they will die days later
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there are supposedly
these powers of martial artist
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ho are able to break
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you may have five or six bricks
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and they send what
they call Chi Energy
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we're going to look at
that in a moment, but Chi Energy
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they'll hit
these stack of bricks
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and the bottom brick will brake
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but the top four remained intact
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and again I will ask, where
does this Chi Energy come from?
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Is this within yourself? Are
you empowered by a higher being?
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Does it come from God?
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Let me give you the
definition of Chi Energy
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We're going to go to
our second slide here
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and the Chi Energy is
basically described as
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Universal energy that can
be accessed or channeled into
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through meditation.
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Atonte, a lot of times you
will see the martial artist
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he is sitting on the floor
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either before or
after he has practiced
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and he is doing
breathing exercises
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and these breathing exercises
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are actually to try to channel
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this Chi Energy that is
supposed to be out there
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in the universe
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because the more Chi
Energy a martial artist has
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he becomes more stronger.
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Atonte as you look at this
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and you look at spiritualism
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you see that these practices
are basically one and the same
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different form,
but the same thing
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and this is why in the
Encyclopedia of New Age
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the martial arts is found there
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because involve
these things such as Chi
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and these super human feat
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Wow. It's amazing
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that power can
come out of someone
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or trough another entity
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and do these things
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We're going to
look at another sign
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because we're going to
sea where to source comes from
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and I just want
to put up a picture
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on the screen right now
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of something
called the Yin-Yang symbol
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and some of you may
have seen the symbol before
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you sea that all over the
place but you don't always
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know what it is
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it's a dominant
sign in the martial arts
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it is the Yin-Yang symbol
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you notice how half
of the symbol is black
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and half of the symbol is white
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and there is a little
white dot on the black side
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I'm going to read to you
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This is from another book
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called Black magic, white Magic
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and listen to what
this book has to say about
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the Yin-Yang symbol
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It says: Another
ancient magical sign
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called the
yin-and-yang first appeared
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sometime before the
3rd century B.C in China
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This emblem became
the favorite of sorcerers
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and mystics
throughout the orient because
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it too, embodies so
many possible meanings
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So Atonte, it's
amazing that the dominant sign
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of the martial
arts, this yin-yang symbol
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is again in another
book, that happens to be called
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Black Magic, White Magic
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is described as a favorite
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magical symbol for sorcerers
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As we begin to look
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at this issue
of the martial arts
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we begin to understand
that there is much more here
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than meets the eye
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We would shrink back in horror
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in getting
involved with open sorcery
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but, the devil
has a way of masking
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and putting in a
different and more pleasant form
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some of the same
spiritualistic concepts
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and we accept it more easily
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because it's more pleasant
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So, basically it is representing
that darkness and light
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can be mingled
together or evil and good?
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the ying-yang
represent principles, opposites
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and the opposites must be
together in order to exist
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if there is good,
there must also be evil
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there is
soft-hard, light-darkness
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and the Yin-Yang symbol
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actually represent
these two principals
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the Yin would
represent the internal aspects
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and the Yang would
represent the external aspects
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So, we want to
look at, very quickly
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the internal
aspects of martial arts
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Should a Christian
be involved in the Yin
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so the speak of martial arts
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the internal aspects.
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we think, clearly,
that meditation, Chi Energy
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all these things are
actually sorcery, another form
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of spiritualism that
connects us, or channels
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so called energy, we
channel so called energy
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into ourselves, not
going to use it myself, but
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the practitioner channels
so called energy into himself
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and that is clearly
a firm of channeling
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or sorcery, or magic
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You know, we're
thinking about meditation
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we should only
be meditating on God
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and the things
of God, and His word
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so unless the martial artist
is meditating solely on God
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to get his power I would say no.
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When a person gets
involved in the martial arts
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you start of at a very
simple level, but you advance
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and step by step you are
required to go deeper and deeper
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into these
meditational practices
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if you want energy, you
have got to harness the Chi
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you have got to meditate,
and you have got to do all these
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different things that the
Bible will se here, actually
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goes against the Bible
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it is channeling, it is sorcery
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and as a
Christian I believe, that
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God sends a red flag,
when you read things like this
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that this is a magical sign
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and that this is the dominant
symbol in the martial arts
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we should know that a Christian
should have nothing to do
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with the Yin, or the internal
aspects of martial arts.
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Because if we
meditate on God and His word
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we will have power, because
there is an enemy out there
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that we should be
fighting, and it is the devil
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and God wants us to have
victory, and to win over Satan
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and if we do, the meditating,
like a martial artist would
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the long hours,
or the concentrating
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on whatever it is that
they are concentrating on
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if we would just
focus on His word and on Him
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and pray to Him, He
would give us that power.
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The bible does
not condemn meditation
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But we are to meditate
on God and upon His word
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and it's amazing
Atonte, that the martial artist
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will sit there for
hours in meditation
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and so often, we as Christians
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pray for five, three
minutes, and we're off
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the martial artist know,
that in order to get power
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this Chi Energy,
they have got to meditate
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and as we should realize
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that we're not trying to get
Chi Energy, we are trying to get
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the power of the spirit of God
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witch by the way with Chi Energy
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say this simply,
often a counterfeit saying
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don't you want this energy,
don't you want this power
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no, as we want the
indwelling of the spirit of God
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witch is not an
energy, He is a person
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we want the
indwelling of Jesus Christ in us
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and we get it trough
meditating upon His word
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and upon His promises, and
we sea here Atonte that already
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the devil uses that principle
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wherever there is a genuine
there has to be a counterfeit.
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Isn't it amazing
how the world flax
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to something like the martial
arts, their in classes to learn
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they are training, learning how
to meditate, but when it says
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why don't you come
to a bible study course
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and learn how to pray to God
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and to meditate to God
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the world is not
flocking that way
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unless you know
that does not want that
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he knows where the real power is
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and he knows
where the false power is
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the internal aspect
of the martial arts is
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eastern mysticism,
that's what it's called
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the mysticism of the orient
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and I believe as Christians
our eyes should be opened
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to say, we can't
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consciously partake of
this aspect of the martial arts.
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Now, the other question is
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should a Christian, we
said that the Yin represents
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the internal, the Yang
represents the external
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should a Christian partake
in the Yang of the martial arts
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the external, because some say
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we practice the martial
arts, but we don't practice
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the evil side of it.
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and Atonte that
Yin-Yang sign reminds me of
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black and white magic
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There are a lot of people, who
say, I read Harry Potter books
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but I'm not into sorcery
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I'm just reading
it for entertainment
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the question is, can we
separate the martial arts
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from it's inherent
I believe, mysticism
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as we look at the
Yang of the martial arts
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the external aspects, we have
got to ask, did Jesus exercise
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the principle of
studying how to fight
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because that's what
the martial arts is,
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it is studying how to fight.
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Now, let me say this upfront,
that I don't believe that
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we should allow ourselves to be
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you see somebody being
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assaulted on the street,
you're not jut going to stand by
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and say I'm a
Christian, I can't do anything,
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I can't help this person
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or if you're getting assaulted
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that you're just
going to stand there
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and just be beaten, of course
you want to defend yourself
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you want to defend your
family, and your children
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to get involved in the martial
arts, to learn how to do that.
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You know, I grew
up in New York city,
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and none of the kids
there knew martial arts
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but they all new how to fight.
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I'm saying, even then
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I believe as Christians, we
ought to seek the face of God
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and the spirit of God
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instead of seeking our
own strength and willpower
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to save us, just in
case something happens
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That's right. The real
fighting, if something like
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that happened, if
an incident happened
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I believe God would give
us the power at that time
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to do what we needed to do
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but the things that we
need to deal with daily
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is the spiritual
attacks and assaults that
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puts on us daily
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and we're totally unprepared
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I mean you're
studying for the martial arts
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and you're real enemy is
attacking you spiritually
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and you're loosing on
every battle on that form,
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but you're preparing for
a fight that may take place?
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Doesn't make sense.
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It's interesting Atonte that
one of the other major symbol,
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or the other major
symbol of the martial arts
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is the dragon.
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and when we look
throughout the bible
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the dragon is always
connected to and is personified
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as Satan himself
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so as for a
Christian to enlist himself
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under the symbol of the
dragon and the Yin-Yang sign
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to me that is just, you know
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God says light and
darkness can not dwell together
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Good or evil can not
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coexist, or in the Christian
they should not coexist
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we should
separate, light and darkness
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have nothing to
do with one another
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and I believe as a Christian we
shouldn't actually be involved
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in the martial
arts, in the sense that
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internally it is
full of spiritualism
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externally, it is the
dragon, the force of the dragon
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the dragon is all about force
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the lamb on the
other hand, Atonte
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is about gentleness and peace.
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When we are
constantly training ourselves
00:17:54.80\00:17:59.11
just in case of
a physical conflict
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we are training ourselves in war
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and the bible tells us,
that there is another war,
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another conflict,
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that is the conflict that
we're supposed to be fighting
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and like I said at the
beginning of the program
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we have done this series,
and we have been talking about
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the entertainment
industry, and the black hole
00:18:20.44\00:18:22.51
and many of you
are probably saying
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Hey, I want to get out,
I want to stop doing this
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and I want to stop doing that
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but I don't have
the power to do that
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and God is saying trough
me, you do have the power.
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Pray, meditate on Me, seek
Me, and you will have the power
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to escape and get out.
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Jesus beat Satan on
the cross, when He died
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and God wants to
give us that same power,
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that Jesus had, on the cross.
00:18:49.52\00:18:51.50
There is a
beautiful verse, Atonte in the
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Ephesians chapter 6.
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It's just amazing as we look
at the context and the content
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of this verse in light of what
we are talking about right now
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In Ephesians
Chapter 6, Paul says this:
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Finally, my brethren,
be strong in the Lord,
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and in the power of his might.
Put on the hole armor of God,
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that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil.
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For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
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the Christians warfare is
not against flesh and blood
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but against
principalities, against powers,
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against the rulers of
the darkness of this world
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against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
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Satan has gotten our
young people all exited
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to go out there and try to
learn this art, the martial arts
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not realizing that it
leads into spiritualism
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and instead of getting exited
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about this verse here Ephesians
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our kids should go out and say
00:19:52.54\00:19:54.67
today, Lord I know,
it is your wish Lord
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that I have power over
the evil one in my life today
00:19:59.47\00:20:02.82
and they should
be exited about that
00:20:02.85\00:20:05.08
and they should
be training for that
00:20:05.11\00:20:08.39
When Paul says
here that we wrestle not
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against flesh and blood
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there is a very interesting
history behind this verse
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because in Paul's time,
just before Paul's time,
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the Olympic games of that time
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culminated with a particular
event called the pancration
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and the Pankration
was a Greek martial art
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it was a Greek martial
art of wrestling and boxing
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so when Paul says in
first Corinthians 9-26
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Not as one, that beats the air,
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there is box, some
translations it will say box
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it was this martial
art of wrestling and boxing
00:20:51.79\00:20:54.64
and when Paul referred
to, he said, we wrestle not
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against flesh and blood
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he was using a
martial art to symbolize
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to spiritual fight of faith with
another words Paul says listen
00:21:03.39\00:21:07.88
as a Christian
we're not engaging
00:21:07.98\00:21:12.50
in a physical wrestling match
00:21:12.53\00:21:14.78
we're not engaging in
the physical martial arts
00:21:14.82\00:21:17.75
our fight is something different
00:21:17.78\00:21:20.63
we have got a
spiritual enemy to face
00:21:20.67\00:21:22.79
and I believe Atonte,
that Paul here is telling us
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I want you to learn how to
be a spiritual, not a physical
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a spiritual martial artist.
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A fighter who fights with grace.
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When we look at
the martial arts,
00:21:36.39\00:21:38.99
what do we sea?
Graceful fighting.
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It's a beautiful art form
00:21:41.63\00:21:43.79
but Paul says, don't
get into the physical thing
00:21:43.83\00:21:46.93
because our fight is spiritual
00:21:46.96\00:21:49.37
and so he says don't box
as one who beats the air,
00:21:49.41\00:21:53.39
don't hit aimlessly, I
want you to fight gracefully.
00:21:53.43\00:21:57.38
We wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but
00:21:57.41\00:21:59.79
we're wrestling
against supernatural forces
00:21:59.82\00:22:02.62
and Paul here invite us,
the word of God invite us
00:22:02.66\00:22:05.75
to learn how to fight just as
gracefully as the martial artist
00:22:05.79\00:22:10.85
but in the context
of the spiritual realm
00:22:10.88\00:22:13.22
and when we learn this
concept, this principle
00:22:13.26\00:22:17.99
and you want to
see the world marvel
00:22:18.02\00:22:21.56
after what is going on
in your life, the all say
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.84
how are you able to
fight spiritually like that?
00:22:24.88\00:22:28.09
Why isn't Satan able to get you?
00:22:28.12\00:22:31.14
in the way, as he is getting
00:22:31.17\00:22:32.62
me, or the person over
here, or the person over there
00:22:32.66\00:22:35.94
and that's when
you'll be able to share
00:22:35.97\00:22:37.63
the gospel of
Jesus Christ with them
00:22:37.66\00:22:39.25
and say, I am
getting this power from Jesus
00:22:39.29\00:22:42.10
and He is empowering me.
00:22:42.13\00:22:44.28
My meditation is not in
Chi, it is in Jesus Christ
00:22:44.32\00:22:47.71
my fight is not a physical
one it is a spiritual one
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Psalms 18, verse
34, the bible says there
00:22:51.14\00:22:54.67
He teach it, my hands to
war, so that a bowl of steel
00:22:54.71\00:22:59.46
is broken by mine arms.
00:22:59.49\00:23:01.49
Are we talking about
God is going to give me
00:23:01.53\00:23:04.50
power to actually
break a physical bowl
00:23:04.53\00:23:07.23
No, that is not,
what he is saying.
00:23:07.27\00:23:09.90
He is using this in the context
of this spiritual battle.
00:23:09.94\00:23:13.84
God wants to teach
our arms, how to war
00:23:13.87\00:23:17.45
so that when the devil
comes, with his hard blows
00:23:17.49\00:23:20.38
that they will be
broken by our arms
00:23:20.41\00:23:22.77
He wants to
teach us how to fight
00:23:22.80\00:23:25.13
this good fight of faith.
00:23:25.16\00:23:26.84
There is a
beautiful verse, Atonte
00:23:26.88\00:23:28.43
a story, rather, well
we can't call it beautiful
00:23:28.47\00:23:31.49
it is found in Genesis Chapter 4
00:23:31.52\00:23:33.59
the story of Cain and Able
00:23:33.62\00:23:35.57
and God here is coming to
Cain, because Cain at this time
00:23:35.61\00:23:40.06
is angry with his brother,
00:23:40.09\00:23:41.50
and he is on the
verge of doing something,
00:23:41.54\00:23:43.60
that is going to ruin his life.
00:23:43.63\00:23:45.36
in Genesis 4, verse
6, the bible says here
00:23:45.40\00:23:49.09
And the Lord said unto
Cain, Why are you angry?
00:23:49.13\00:23:52.21
Why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou
00:23:52.25\00:23:58.21
not be accepted? and
if thou doest not well,
00:23:58.51\00:24:01.22
sin lieth at the door. And
unto thee shall be his desire
00:24:01.26\00:24:07.09
and thou shalt rule over him.
00:24:07.12\00:24:08.94
What's happening here
is, these feelings of anger
00:24:08.98\00:24:12.35
are bubbling up in Cain,
00:24:12.38\00:24:14.05
and he is angry
at his brother Able
00:24:14.09\00:24:20.01
and God has rejected his
sacrifice, and accepted Abel's.
00:24:20.41\00:24:24.04
and so, God come to him and says
00:24:24.07\00:24:26.39
Cain you're
wrestling, with feelings
00:24:26.42\00:24:29.11
and I understand this
00:24:29.14\00:24:30.99
But I want you to rule, or
to dominate over those feelings.
00:24:31.02\00:24:36.60
It says here, thou
shalt rule over him
00:24:36.63\00:24:39.98
The word there Atonte for
rule is MASHAL M A S H A L
00:24:40.02\00:24:45.23
does that word sound familiar?
00:24:45.26\00:24:46.45
The word means to
dominate, to rule over
00:24:46.48\00:24:50.08
God is telling Cain
here, Cain don't allow sin
00:24:50.12\00:24:54.27
to rule over you, you
rule over it, dominate it Cain
00:24:54.31\00:25:00.05
fight against it.
00:25:00.35\00:25:01.93
He is calling Cain here to
fight to good fight of faith.
00:25:01.97\00:25:07.31
He is calling Cain to become
a spiritual martial artist.
00:25:07.34\00:25:12.63
Not against some person, but
against his own fleshly desires.
00:25:12.66\00:25:17.92
And you know what
Cain does, Atonte?
00:25:17.95\00:25:19.79
He takes the
advice, that God gives him,
00:25:19.83\00:25:21.64
and he turns it physical.
00:25:21.67\00:25:24.17
When God was
telling him what to do,
00:25:24.21\00:25:28.35
there was power there, because
when God speaks, there's power
00:25:28.39\00:25:31.07
that is why we believe in
His word, and claim His word
00:25:31.10\00:25:33.69
and at that point when God said,
00:25:33.72\00:25:37.64
Cain MASHAL sin, dominate it,
00:25:37.68\00:25:41.57
there was power there,
and he could have beat it.
00:25:41.98\00:25:44.67
There was power in God's word,
and Cain chose to reject that.
00:25:44.71\00:25:48.58
It's interesting
Atonte, that in the NIV
00:25:48.61\00:25:51.43
translation of this verse
00:25:51.46\00:25:52.70
it says: sin is
crouching at your door
00:25:52.74\00:25:55.44
and I can't help,
but think about that
00:25:55.48\00:25:58.11
blockbuster movie,
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,
00:25:58.15\00:26:01.17
sin is crouching
like a crouching tiger
00:26:01.20\00:26:04.91
at the doors of our hearts,
00:26:04.94\00:26:07.38
and we have got to be aware
00:26:07.42\00:26:09.79
that we are in
a spiritual battle
00:26:09.83\00:26:11.95
and sin is right
there at our door
00:26:11.99\00:26:14.04
crouching, like a crouching
tiger, and a hidden dragon.
00:26:14.08\00:26:17.70
God says you can master it,
00:26:17.73\00:26:19.55
if you come to
the lam Jesus Christ,
00:26:19.59\00:26:23.07
I will give you the
power, to defeat the dragon.
00:26:23.11\00:26:27.20
I will give you
the power to fight
00:26:27.23\00:26:29.90
against to forces of sin.
00:26:29.93\00:26:32.67
I will give you
the power to wrestle
00:26:32.71\00:26:34.31
against spiritual
wickedness in high paces.
00:26:34.35\00:26:37.91
the devil is following the
physical stiles of fighting
00:26:37.95\00:26:42.61
and God says, I want to
draw you to a higher battle
00:26:42.64\00:26:47.27
a higher fight, and
to think that we can seat
00:26:47.30\00:26:50.96
under the feat of the
grand master Jesus Christ.
00:26:50.99\00:26:54.62
The master of the fight
of faith, and learn from Him.
00:26:54.65\00:26:58.84
What greater honor?
00:26:58.87\00:27:04.63
It's so neat, that
Jesus symbol is a lamb, and
00:27:04.93\00:27:09.51
and Satan's symbol is a dragon
00:27:09.54\00:27:11.75
and normally a dragon
should be able to beat a lamb
00:27:11.78\00:27:14.50
but Jesus has supernatural power
00:27:14.53\00:27:18.12
with Jesus, acting
and living as a lamb,
00:27:18.16\00:27:21.87
we can beat the dragon.
00:27:21.90\00:27:22.87
We can beat the
dragon and all his forces
00:27:22.88\00:27:25.19
his music, his movies, his
entertainment, all those things
00:27:25.23\00:27:28.77
Jesus says: in the lamb
00:27:28.80\00:27:31.41
when you follow the lamb,
00:27:31.44\00:27:33.98
He will give you
that power to overcome
00:27:34.02\00:27:37.92
all the assaults of the enemy.
00:27:37.95\00:27:40.46
I encourage our
listeners out there
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to enroll in the
school of Christ.
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He is the man of
war, the bible says
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not a physical
war, but a spiritual war
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and when we seat under His
feat when we learn from Him
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the devil tumbles.
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Jesus wants you
to have that power
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and we pray that
you receive that power
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We're all out of
time, until next time
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God Bless
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